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The group stood and stared at each other for a while. No one quite knew what to say though Mustang did open and close his mouth several times. Harry fidgeted looking around nervously, he new they weren't that safe in this one spot but didn't know what else to say.
"What year is this?" Mustang asked suddenly, seeming to have recovered his vocal chords.
"2001." Harry promptly replied not thinking, as he studied them he saw looks of astonishment and disbelief settle on their faces.
"Just wonderful Ed, you not only sent us HERE but you also sent us forward in time!" Mustang uncharacteristically roared, he brought up his hand and he looked as if he was preparing to snap his fingers but the armored man quickly forced his hand down.
"Colonel Mustang, I don't think that's a good idea…" The armor said softly. There was something odd about that suit of armor, it walked and talked and it stood about 7 feet tall but it oddly sounded like a hollow piece of metal when it had fallen from the sky. That and the voice emitting from it sounded like a very young boy.
"If you even think about it, I'll kick your ass from here to hell," Ed shot back trying to keep calm though Harry noticed a bulging vein on his head.
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Dumbledore looked morosely at the pensieve, in it was Harry's head, swimming around in the shimmering depths. He sighed as he thought of the pain the young boy had to be going through. Pain he had added on upon. He was sitting down when he sensed it. Too small for wizards such as Voldemort to notice but just big enough so that Dumbledore began to look into it. He quickly cast a spell to give himself seeing eyes and skimmed over the Wizarding world. He passed over the webs of power he had thrown over the more populous areas of the wizarding world, his very own security alarm. Nothing seemed to be amiss until he reached Diagon Alley. There stood Harry potter with 4 strangers, quite strange strangers indeed one looked no older than a first year while a suit of armor carried a girl on his shoulders with another older man in a quite muggle military outfit. His worry grew until he could stand no longer; he rushed to find a way to intervene.
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While Ed and Mustang were bickering, Al stepped up to Harry and motioned towards the girl, Winry.
"Excuse me, do you know a place where we can comfortably place Winry? I don't think I'm a very good pillow…" The suit of armor asked politely. Harry nodded and decided to at least help the girl.
"Down that a ways, there's an inn there where you can temporarily stop by. But I don't know if you have the right kind of money," Harry replied, if they were indeed from another world and time, he doubt they had anything in common besides sharing the same species. Hell they might even be different species! Ed suddenly stopped and looked up, he didn't want to admit it but he was worried for Winry. He dug around his pockets and pulled out a purse or something like a wallet. He looked inside and brought out a piece of paper.
"Will this work?"
"Erm, probably not, we use money in forms of gold, silver, and copper, here, just a minute," Harry glanced at the currency Ed held, it was brightly colored bits of paper with some foreign writing on it. These people would be in a lot of trouble if they didn't even have money. Harry himself dug out his coins and showed him.
"Where do I get that?"
"Um usually you change the currency at an exchange booth but it doesn't seem like your money even exists on this planet…"
"The big gold ones are solid gold, right?"
"I think so…" Harry was starting to feel cautious, was this shorty gonna rob him? He watched as Al, Ed and Mustang squat in a semicircle muttering and whispering together.
"Mustang, what should we do? We need some money!" Ed grimaced, he hated asking for advice…
"Easy, you go make some gold."
"But that's illegal!" Al stammered looking from Mustang to Ed. Both had evil grins plastered on their faces.
"Only if someone else finds out!" Ed and Roy chortled happily not realizing they had agreed with each other, Ed quickly looked around, there weren't enough rocks around, he needed many rocks to do this, lead compounds would help too. Besides, there was no military to uphold the law.
"Al! Go get some rocks for me!" Ed ordered while making a hole in the ground, "Mustang we have to cover the gold from the kid's view."
"Here you go, big brother!" Al dumped a huge piece of granite in the hole.
"Here goes nothing, hopefully, my alchemy still works," Ed clapped his hands together and touched the sides of the hole. He could feel the equations running through his mind and when he looked down, the granite had broken down and separated the silicon pieces. Now they had a huge block of nice shiny gold.
"Hey! What are you guys doing!?" Harry jogged up to the group, highly suspicious. Ed grinned (quite evilly Harry decided) and held out a block of shiny yellow-ish gold metal. Wait. Gold. Metal… hmm…. At the realization that Ed was holding out a huge block of gold, Harry's eyes widened staring at the solid block.
"So, how much do you think this'll fetch?" Ed said grinning broadly.
"Um…. I don't know, maybe you could go to Gringotts..." Harry said, looking at the block in disbelief.
"Ed, maybe its not enough, those coins were pretty big…" Mustang murmured looking around.
"Hey, does this place sell coal?" Al suddenly spoke up.
"Um, I think the Apothecary does, magicked coal to last longer for heating a cauldron…" Harry said, clearly confused, what the hell did they want coal for? Mustang nodded and headed toward the smelly shop, in his hands were a couple of pebbles, he pulled an ed and quickly transmuted them into gold on the doorstep with a makeshift sigil. He came back carrying a sack the size of a backpack with coal.
"Hand them to me." Ed motioned and both headed further down the alley from where they dropped. Harry craned his neck to get a glimpse but Al stepped in front and started shooting questions at him. Not being able to multi-task, Harry missed the flash of light that emitted from the alley.
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